National Identity and the Preference for State Opting-Out in the Basque Country

Joan Costa Font and Ramon Tremosa-i-Balcells

No 151, Working Papers in Economics from Universitat de Barcelona. Espai de Recerca en Economia

Abstract: We argue that preferences for secession are the expression of common unobserved factors determining national identity, and accordingly that identity matters. This paper examines the hypothesis of support for secession (independent Euskadi) and Basque national identity as being dependent in the light of a reformulation of Akerloff and Kranton (2000). We examine observed economic determinants of individuals national identity (and their perceived imagined community or nation) formation as well as those that influence the propensity of individuals to support the secession.. We undertake econometric survey analysis for the Basque Country using a bivariate probit model and publicly available data from the Spanish Centre for Sociological Research. Our results suggest evidence of a common determination of national identity and political preferences for the secession of the Basque Country consistently with Akerloff and Kranton model.

JEL-codes: D72 D78 H19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2006
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